As part of my self-learning, I am automating some of my tasks in UiPath studio and running it in my local. But the issue came when I see I have “Community License” and not the actual paid license.
Just wanted to mention that I installed UiPath may be a year back. for my self learning and practice I need only the uipath studio and not the orchestrator or robot.
Do you see any concern if I continue use the free version (Community license) on my own laptop?
Depends on what you use it for.
If you use log messages from your work pc and the data is sensitive then I would advise you to not use log messages. The data residency of cloud orchestrator may differ based on demand so you never know where your execution logs will be saved. So any automation which logs selector / data which is sensitive should be assessed. You do not want to be the one leaking senstive information without meaning to or knowing about.
If you are just trying to automate non-senstive tasks, just go ahead and use it as much as you like. There are no boundaries other than some bandwidth limit if you do end up using the community cloud orchestrator.
The community license is a license subsidized by paying customers of UiPath. Like other software this is a great way to distribute the tool to many and UiPath has done a commendable job to keep this license free with bunch of built in features.
Some links to read:
Goodluck!
Hi
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It depends on team size and purpose you have
To start with team size Say for example I f the Customer is either an individual, or an organization that, together with its Affiliates, collectively have (a) less than 250 physical or virtual machines or users and (b) less than the equivalent of USD 5 (five) million in annual revenues, the Customer is deemed a “Small Business” and may use the this tool for internal business purposes only. There is no issue in that
If the Customer is an organization that, together with its Affiliates, collectively exceed the limitations set herein for a Small Business, the Customer is deemed a “Large Business” and may only use the Software to test and evaluate the suitability, and for non-profit purposes, such as education, hackathons, individual or institutional research, and internal trainings.
Being community edition UiPath reserves the right to delete all Customer Data in the Software if the Customer fails to use that Software for more than 90 (ninety) consecutive calendar days.
So in your case you can still use UiPath community edition anytime you want and pls be aware that the community edition will keep on auto updating itself with new version which is ofcourse good for you to learn new features
And still your old projects will work with its own project dependencies and packages
And I hope even if you install studio you would be in need of orchestrator to connect the robot because it require license through orchestrator
So it requires all platforms to be installed
Not just studio
May be just a robot is possible but not just studio
Hope this would help you resolve this
Cheers @ranjan.chakraborty
Hi @jeevith Thanks for your reply.
I am not running my code from orchestrator. I am running it directly from studio.
Will that change your answer on saving log in cloud?
Sorry @Palaniyappan , I am little confused with your reply.
Before that let me clarify that my organization is a large organization as per your definition and have license for team who need it for their work. Just because I want to use this tool for my own work, which was initially expected me to do manually.
Coming back to your another part, I am using studio and not orchestrator. I run it directly from studio.
Can you please consider all this points and suggest me?
In that case you can use community edition
No issues in that
End of story
And for this
With studio we can only develop and simulate a workflow
But to run a process made it has to be done with robot
And whenever you are installing a studio it will Obviously include a robot in user mode
Check this out
Moreover Robot that comes with the Community Edition Studio can only be connected to the UiPath Orchestrator Community Edition
So it requires all for a community edition
Cheers @ranjan.chakraborty
With my best knowledge, I am not using any robot.
Kindly refer to the above screen shot where I showed how I am running the flow I created.
Just wanted to make sure :
Note.
Just in case you need information of what I am doing in my process:
In process I developed, I am opening some file from my local folder and then merging in other file in my local folder.
Please suggest.
For your concern check below link
you can check the @jeevith comment
The UiPath Studio (community) version needs to be connected to Cloud Orchestrator and thereby you cannot have a studio which is airgapped. However, a UiPath robot can still function as it is an .exe file without linking to orchestrator.
In both cases, your robot / studio will generate execution logs to your users local file path.
So I would still advice avoid using log messages if you have sensitive data in your automation.
You are not violating any license terms when you use the community license, UiPath just inturn likes to get the telemetry details from your PC so that they know which PCs are using community version.
Another thing you can also ensure is choose the Stable version of studio .msi when you install and avoid using preview versions. This is because UiPath can upgrade your entire UiPath installation anytime.
